Format | Hardcover |
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This Other Eden: The new novel from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Print length: | 208 pages |
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Language: | English |
Publisher: | Hutchinson Heinemann |
Publication date: | 7 February 2023 |
Dimensions: | 14.4 x 2.4 x 22.2 cm |
ISBN-10: | 1529152542 |
ISBN-13: | 978-1529152548 |
Description
From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a profoundly moving story of an island refuge, and a community of outcasts living on borrowed time. ‘Masterful . . . This Other Eden has much to say to our times.’ Guardian ‘A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep.’ Danez Smith, New York Times ‘A luminous, thought-provoking novel.’ Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden tells the story of Apple Island- an enclave off the coast of the United States where waves of castaways – in flight from society and its judgment – have landed and built a home. Benjamin Honey- American, Bantu, Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist, arrived on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, and discovered they could make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. Then comes the intrusion of ‘civilization’- officials determine to ‘cleanse’ the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark. Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding’s This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference. ‘Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner, Robinson and even Elizabeth Strout . . . This Other Eden . . . begs to be widely read.’ Spectator —- ISBN: 9781529152548
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